ORLANDO, Fla. — The Nets are just starting their own teardown and tank.

Friday they got an up close look at what a rebuild should look like. And Brooklyn can only hope its goes anywhere near as well.

The Nets didn’t so much get outworked as outclassed and out-executed late by Orlando, 116-101, before a sellout crowd of 19,087 at Amway Center.

Just as they had in their season-opening loss at the Hawks, Brooklyn committed untimely turnovers to fumble away a game. It fell to 0-2, set to host the Milwaukee Bucks in Sunday’s home opener.

“So once again, it was very a little bit similar to Atlanta,” said coach Jordi Fernandez. “We did a good job in that first half. Very physical game, we match their physicality. The game was in the 40s at halftime, we had six turnovers for five points at halftime and then 13 for 20 in the second half.

“So obviously taking care of the ball is important. I give our guys a lot of credit because we played hard. But once again, those are the things that we have to clean up.”

Clinging to a two-point lead in the third quarter, Brooklyn’s offense — shaky all evening — went ice-cold. A three-plus minute scoreless drought and 13-0 Magic run left the Nets in a hole they never recovered from. They shot 42.2 percent overall.

Orlando is expected to challenge for 50 wins behind their two best players, Franz Wagner and Paolo Banchero, just 22 and 21, respectively.

Wagner had 29 points, six rebounds and five assists while Banchero had 15 points and nine assists.

Meanwhile, Nets guard Cam Thomas scored a team-high 24 points, but once again feasted in garbage time. After 20 of his 36 points in Wednesday’s season-opening loss came in the fourth quarter, two nights later he suffered through a five-point, 1 of 7 first half — guarded by Jalen Suggs, Anthony Black and Kentavious Caldwell-Pope — only to erupt for a dozen in the fourth.

Dennis Schroder and Ben Simmons somewhat cleaned up their passing after committing 11 turnovers against the Hawks. Schroder excelled with 20 points, six assists and just two turnovers for a plus-6 on a night the Nets lost badly.

But Simmons was a minus-17 with five fouls, costly in a game that saw center Nic Claxton coming off the bench with a minutes limit and backup Day’Ron Sharpe sidelined altogether. It proved costly.

As they had in the opening loss in Atlanta, the Nets started slow.

But they closed the first half on a 15-6 run — including a dozen unanswered — to get back in the game. They trailed 49-46 going into the locker room.

Simmons made three straight drives to open the first half to personally outscore Orlando 7-0. The third was initially called an offensive foul but a Fernandez challenge got it reversed to a foul on Banchero.

The and-one put Brooklyn ahead 53-49 with 10:39 left in the third.

But clinging to a 65-63 lead after a Thomas jumper, the Nets coughed up the momentum. They conceded 13 unanswered by Orlando, with Gary Harris’ 3-pointer leaving them in a 76-65 hole they never recovered from.

Some silly fouls sent Simmons to the bench. And with Claxton’s minutes restriction and Sharpe’s absence leaving Brooklyn threadbare in the front court, they were ill-advised.

After a fairly clean first half, Brooklyn committed eight team turnovers in the third quarter to hand the Magic 15 points. It proved the key run in the game.

“Especially in that first half, our resistance was unbelievable,” said Fernandez. “They punched first and then we punched after. And it may be a little ugly, but the competitiveness was fun to watch. That’s how you want your team to play. (We have to) just find a way.

“I think it is getting used to playing at this level of physicality and pace. And once we get there is when you don’t make that many mistakes because you’re tired.”